4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (451+ words) Nordic collecting societies TONO, Teosto and Koda have been collaborating on research for more than a decade now, surveying people in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland about their digital music habits and opinions. The latest report, based on a YouGov…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (250+ words) Soundplate started as a record label before evolving into a company that makes marketing tools for independent artists. Now it’s turning acquirer by buying a firm called Stemmer. What’s that? An AI-powered music-mastering company that was founded in 2020. It has…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (257+ words) Billboard promised “greater transparency around the use of artificial intelligence in music, including identifying songs on its charts and in its editorial coverage that use AI”. How exactly will it do that? Well, that was left carefully vague in its…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1142+ words) ‘Oh, TikTok is signing AI-music creators now, is it? I knew they were wrong ‘uns’ may be the impulse reaction in some quarters of the music industry to news today of the latest signing to SoundOn, TikTok’s distribution arm. But…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (328+ words) Former Apple Music exec Jimmy Iovine is always good for a snappy quote or two about music-tech, particularly when he’s being interviewed alongside his Beats co-founder Dr Dre. Their latest profile, in the New York Times, continues the trend. “I’m…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (149+ words) When Tamber raised a $5m funding round in April, its pitch was that it was building an “assistive, non-generative” suite of tools for musicians. Ticketing firm Dice has announced a new tranche of venue… Ticketmaster is ramping up its footprint in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) We wrote about Quantizr when it emerged last November as a startup building an “AI-powered entertainment operations platform” for the live-music sector. Now it’s raised $5m of seed funding to continue that work. YouTube’s latest recap of its chart trends notes…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) German startup Cyanite was early in to the use of AI for music-metadata creation: we first wrote about it in July 2019, when its auto-tagging tech was a spin-off from an existing firm called Groovecat. Just over seven years later, the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (275+ words) Paid social promotion of music can be controversial: just ask Geese. But some of the companies offering this service certainly seem to have momentum. Sound·me being one of them. The US-based firm says it now has a network of…...